"Southern Manor" by Kathleen Rivers.
The galleries of the Brady Arts District will hold their monthly First Friday Art Walk tonight, with receptions and open houses by the various artistically inclined businesses along Brady Street between Main Street and Detroit Avenue.
The receptions will be to mark the openings of new shows at the
Tulsa Artists Coalition Gallery, 9 E. Brady St., and
Living Arts of Tulsa, 307 E. Brady St.
At the TAC Gallery will be “24 Works on Paper,” an annual touring exhibit created by two Oklahoma City organizations – Individual Artists of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition – featuring works by artists from throughout the state.
This year’s show features works by three Tulsa artists – Yiren Gallagher, Cynthia Marcoux and May Yang – along with artists from Oklahoma City, Lawton, Edmond, Norman, Mustang, Holdenville and Roff.
The juror for the show was Louise Siddons, assistant professor of American, modern and contemporary art at Oklahoma State University.
The opening reception will be from 6 to 9 p.m. The show will continue on display through April. 28.
Living Arts of Tulsa will open two separate exhibits, holding joint receptions from 5 to 7 p.m.
Ada artist Kathleen Rivers show “Free Entropy,” is a collection of collages made up of – to use the artist’s words – “maps, notes, cancelled stamps, old books, children’s drawings, clothing labels, love letters, buttons and pins,” which she will then “weave together as a bird constructs a nest.”
Joe Dal Pra, a Tucson sculptor, uses the human form as the basis for his work – sometimes in silhouette, other times in three-dimensional form. However, the figures are always exaggerated: the silhouettes are distorted through design and perspective, while the more recognizable images are truncated, marred or simply grotesque.
Both shows will be on display through April 26.
The Brady Artists Studio, 23 E. Brady St., will have an open house from 6 to 9 p.m. as part of the First Friday Art Walk, which works by Mel Cornshucker, Donna Prigmore, Teresa Rechter, Julie and Murf Box. During the evening Cornshucker will also give demonstrations of wheel-thrown pottery.
"People (Watching)" by Joe Dal Pra
